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For those who remember dialing in to the internet @ 56k with a PSTN modem will also recall that in the late 90’s and early 2000’s one of the popular social uses for the internet for many people were chat rooms. Many will remember the breath of chat room service providers; everything ranging from MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL and IRC (still…

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Very detailed article from Dan Kaminsky who is a well-known security researcher, black hat speaker and has special interests in DNS security. This article discusses the recent glibc vulnerability (CVE-2015-7547) and some of the possible attack vectors including mitigation strategies. I particularly share the view in the last couple of paragraphs where Dan talks about the importance on how we as…

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For those who have worked with open-source technologies for some time would know that containerisation of apps and services is not a new concept. I was first introduced to the concept of virtual containers when Parallels formally known as ‘SWsoft’ and now called ‘Odin’ first released a product called Virtuozzo which provided a virtualisation technology that enabled operating system virtualisation. This was a platform…

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I was a bit slow on the pick up of this news, but today learnt that Microsoft have finally launched the Visual Studio Team Foundation Service into production for the general public to subscribe! What’s better and you may not know this, they are also offering up to 5 users for free, and for a limited time…

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This post is a small reminder to myself for the next time I may run into this problem when working with WSS 3.0 Web Services interface. Hopefully it might also save someone else a huge amount of time if they have a similar problem (A lot of time was wasted for me until I finally…

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Here is an interesting topic, if your a web developer and use SQL Database software in your applications, how much thought do you give to ensure your application is safe from a SQL Injection Attack? SQL Injection Attacks are when a end-user attempts to run malicious SQL statements on your applications database to programmatically alter…

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Hi my name is Tim, I am a Solutions Architect / Entrepreneur with over 10 years of industry-based experience and founder/owner of Raines Internet Solutions. I have worked in the Education sector for most of that time and currently hold an leadership role at a local secondary school in Melbourne, Australia. My other time is spent working with Raines Internet Solutions which delivers cloud-based software/services, managed I.T solutions and enterprise project consultancy services. I also enjoy listening to all forms of electronic dance music in my free time! In this blog I will write editorials on changes in the I.T industry and maintain a work journal of tips and guides from experiences that I find worth while sharing. Please feel free to join in on the discussion.

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